Today, AMD launched its latest line of workstation graphics, leading with the AMD FirePro W9000 Graphics Processing Unit. The company also launched the AMD FirePro A300 Series Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) for entry-level and mainstream desktop workstations.

AMD FirePro W9000 GPU

The AMD FirePro W9000 GPU features increased memory bandwidth and grea multi-display support performance. Following closely are the AMD FirePro W8000, W7000 and W5000 workstation graphics cards, all built on the AMD Graphics Core Next Architecture, and designed to balance compute and 3D workloads for computer-aided design and engineering, and for media and entertainment (M&E) professionals.

According to AMD's benchmark data, through GCN and GeometryBoost, the AMD FirePro W9000 workstation GPU delivers a record shattering 1.95 billon triangles per second.

The AMD FirePro W8000 workstation GPU, features Error Correcting Code (ECC) memory support and offers leading dual-precision compute performance, up to 2.2 times as fast as Nvidia's competing solution, AMD claims.

The AMD FirePro W7000 workstation GPU is also up to five times as fast as Nvidia's competing solution in single-precision compute performance, while the AMD FirePro W5000 workstation GPU is possibly the most powerful mid-range workstation graphics card ever created.

Additionally, these new AMD FirePro cards support PCI Express 3.0 and AMD PowerTune and AMD ZeroCore Power technologies for dynamic power management.

All AMD FirePro A300 Series APUs are powered by AMD Catalyst Pro software.

AMD FirePro A300 Series APUs

APU Model

TDP

CPU Cores

CPU Clock (Max/Base)

AMD Stream Processors

GPU Clock

Unlocked1

AMD FirePro A300

65W

4

4 GHz / 3.4 GHz

384

760 MHz

No

AMD FirePro A320

100W

4

4.2 GHz / 3.8 GHz

384

800 MHz

Yes

The chips are effectively rebranded "quad-core" Trinity APUs with fully featured, 384 core VLIW4 Northern Islands/Cayman derived GPU. Their max GPU frequencies set at 760MHz and 800MHz for the two parts.

The new APUs will be available in systems from a number of workstation integrators starting in August of 2012. Pricing was not immediately available for AMD's FirePro A chips.